Kinetics of crystallization from the melt and chain folding in polyethylene fractions revisited: Theory and experiment

Polymer

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 3151-3212

  Hoffman, John D ^a   Miller, Robert L ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN MOLECULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain folding; Characteristic ratio; Forced reptation; Friction coefficient; Growth rate; Kuhn length; Lamellar thickness; Nucleation theory; Physical adsorption; Polyethylene; Regime transition; Reptation of slack; Substrate length; Surface free energy

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH FROM MELT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEATION; REACTION KINETICS;

QUANTIZATION EFFECTS;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 0031166119     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(97)00071-2     Document Type: Review

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